Pressing and squeezing appliance.



ITED srn'rns PATENT OFFICE.

KARL TOBIAS KRISTIANSEN GILJE, OF STAVANGER, NORWAY.

PRESSING AND SQUEEZING APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

l-atented July 3, 1906.

Application filed November 20, 1905. Serial No. 288,294.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL TOBIAS KRIS- TIANSEN GILJE, farmer, a citizenof Norway, residing at the city of Stavanger, Norway, have invented newand useful Improvements in Pressing and Squeezing Appliances forDomestic Use, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention has for its object to provide an apparatus servingto press out juice from all sorts of berries, also in the household topress several sorts of eatables, as collared beef, for example.

The apparatus is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in WhichFigure 1 is a side view, partly in longitudinal section, of theapparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan View in which a part of the press-frame isbroken away. Fig. 3 is an end view of the apparatus. Figs. 4 and 5 areend and side views of the automatic stopping device for the rope.

The apparatus comprises a transportable fast-lying part or table 1 and apress-frame 2 3 4, which latter after having been placed with itspress-plate 2 between the side parts 5 of the table 1 and under the pin7, passed through a suitable hole 6 in the side stands, rests upon theberry-bag 8 or the ware in question, placed upon the perforated plate 9on the table 1. The table is extended at 10 and is here provided with anumberfor example,fivero e-pulleys 11. The upperpart 4 of the pressameis also extended at 12 and has a similar number of rope-pulleys 13. Froma hook 14 on the extension 12 a rope 15 passes alternately down and upover all the pulleys 11 and 13 in succession, then down through anautomatic stopping device 16, Figs. 1 and 3, and, lastly, upward andaround a shaft 17, rovided with crankhandle 18 and journa ed upon theupper piece 4 of the press-frame. Two screens 0r guards 19 and 20 coverthe pulleys and prevent the rope from passing out of the grooves of thesaid pulleys.

It will be readily understood that the pressing is caused by turning theshaft 17, whereby on account of the pulley system and the small diameterof the shaft a considerable force is easily obtained on the pressframe.In certain cases also the other end of the rope may preferably be coiledaround the shaft 17 instead of being attached to the hook 14.

The last bight of the rope passes through a stopping device 16. (Shownin Figs. 4 and 5.) This device has a rotatable stopping-pawl 21, the endof which turning against the disk 22 is toothed. By means of the spring24, coiled around the turning pin 23, the pawl is pressed with its pin25 a ainst the fixed pin or projection 26 on the disk-frame 27. When,therefore, the rope is pulled so that it tends to turn the disk 22 inthe direction of the arrow 28, Fig. 5, the pawl will permit thismovement, as it can swing out to the right in the direction of the arrow29. If, however, the pulling force applied to the rope is released, thepawl 21 immediately will drop into action and jam the rope fast betweenits teeth and the disk 22, so that the pressframe is held fast in thegiven position. Therefore the crank 18 may at any time be released andthe ap aratus may be left while the juice from the ag 8 is flowingthrough the holes 30 in the plate 9 and through the longitudinal grooveson the under side of the plate. The juice is gathered in a curvedchannel 31 inside the end piece 32 of the table. From this channel thejuice flows to a middle groove 33 and drips off at the lower part of theinclined table 1.

By means of a side projection 34, Fig. 4, the awl may be swung by handto the side, so t at the last bight of the rope 15 may be passed out ofthe stopping device 16.

Instead of the stopping device 16 the shaft 17 may, as shown, beprovided with a ratchet-wheel 36, so that a pawl 37 may hold the shaftfast against turning back.

According to the thickness of the bag 8 or ware to be pressed the bolt 7is passed through the most suitable hole 6 and may of course be shiftedfrom one hole to another when the thickness of the bag or ware isgradually decreased during the pressing.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A press for berries and the like comprising a table, a press-frameconsisting of apart substantially parallel with the table and aninclined part connected to the parallel part, pulleys carried by saidinclined part, pulleys carried by the table and a rope passing aroundsaid pulleys.

2. A press for berries and the like comprisin a table having side walls,provided with oles near one end, a removable bolt havin its ends restinin opposing holes in the si e walls a pressame having one end device andhaving its other end secured to 1 the shaft.

4. In combination with the table and press-frame, of the pulleys carriedat one end of said parts, a rope passing around said pulleys and astoppin device consisting of a pulley around whic the rope passes, aspring-controlled pawl having a toothed end normally lying adjacent thepulley and projections 25, 26 for preventing movement 0 the pawl in onedirection.

5. A press comprising an inclined table, a perforated plate on saidtable, said plate having longitudinal grooves on its under side, an endwall on the lower end of the table and said tab-1e having a curvedchannel 31 in its lower end above the wall extending across the tableand a longitudinal channel extending from the curved channel to the endof the table and under the end wall, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

v KARL TOBIAS KRISTIANSEN GILJE.

Witnesses:

ELIsE KNUnsEN, R. M. RASMUSEN.-

